Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: mjr@cthulhu.welch.jhu.edu (Marcus J. Ranum) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: odd things defined in Sun make 4.0 Message-ID: <8901301424.AA04359@cthulhu.welch.jhu.edu> Date: 8 Feb 89 10:44:46 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 7 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Mon, 30 Jan 89 09:24:15 EST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 143, message 2 of 16 Is it normal for all makes to have a target coded into them for 'markfile.o', depending on 'markfile' and grabbing the sccsid from it ? I did a "make -p" the other day, and noticed this little hack, just waiting to bite someone. --mjr();